RSCH FPX 7860 Assessment 1 Literature Review Research Metrix

(Dantas et al., 2022)

Dantas et al. (2022)

work-related social media; work performance; extra-role behavior; socializing; social

media at the workplace; personal usage of social media

Will the work performance of the employees be affected by the use of social media at work?

Does personal use of social media impact the employees’ work performance?

Do extra-role behaviors mediate the relationship between work-related social media

usage and employees’ work performance?

Do extra-role behaviors mediate the relationship between social-related social media

usage and employees’ work performance?

H1: Social media use in work has a positive and significant effect on work performance.

H2: Social-related social media usage has a positive and significant impact on work performance.

H3: Extra-role behavior is the mediator between the work-related social media use and work.

H3: Extra-role behavior mediates the relationship between work-related social media usage and work

H4: Extra-role behavior mediates the relationship between social-related social media usage and

work performance.

Affordance theory (an individual’s perceptions drive their actions)

N = 241 organizational staff across the corporate ladder in government and private companies.

Quantitative Non-experimental Survey Design

The use of social media in both work-related and social-related activities improves the performance of employees and promotes creativity, efficiency, and problem-solving. It keeps interactions among self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and extra-role behaviors and promotes knowledge-sharing and teamwork. Addiction to social media, however, may impact productivity. The social media afforations such as visibility and association brought by enterprise social media have a positive impact on team performance. Research has revealed that companies that invest in social media enhance meta-knowledge among employees, which allows them to communicate, trust, and share vision. Extra-role behaviors, which are driven by self-efficacy and job satisfaction, play a critical role in boosting the work output beyond the normal line of work and culminate in making social media a resourceful tool in organizational and individual development.

(Chen et al., 2025)

Stigma, Substance Use Recovery, Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs), Stages of Change, Social Media Narratives

No specific research question is provided in the article.

Yes – the research questions are aligned with the qualitative narrative analysis design, as the method enabled exploration of occurring narratives to respond to these exploratory questions.

The Transtheoretical Model of Change (Stages of Change) and Behavior Change Techniques (BCT) taxonomy are implicitly informed by the research in terms of their theoretical basis.

Population: Users discussing the process of alcohol, cannabis, or opioid addiction recovery on Reddit.

Sample: 748 Reddit posts (Alcohol = 316, Cannabis = 335, Opioids = 135).

N = 748 posts (not individual human participants, as data were collected from publicly available online forums)

(Webster & Ryan, 2023)

Social media, proxies, older adults, social networks, digital support, digital inclusion

The paper has no formal word-for-word research question or hypothesis.

The study’s purpose aligns with a qualitative design to discover or understand social phenomena, not to test hypotheses.

No explicit framework was stated. Yet a rational framework utilized is socio-technical theory (keeping in mind interactions between individuals and technology) or the social support framework, as the research looks at how older adults use proxies in their social network to get involved in social media.

Population: The elderly who do not use social media themselves, but have those who do use social media (proxies) do it on their behalf.

Sample: 9 older people (age not stated in abstract but inferred to be 65+).

N = 9 participants.

Method: Qualitative research.

Design: Exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews

Older people who are not users of social media per se tend to have “social media proxies” (family member or friend) who connect with social media on their behalf. This proxy support enables them to stay connected, receive updates, and be indirectly present on sites. The practice accentuates opportunities for inclusion and tension issues pertaining to autonomy, dependence, and possible exclusion from direct digital participation. The authors urge that the digital literacy effort should take into consideration this indirect mode of participation.

(Angelini et al., 2024)

Social media features, active social media use, perceived group norms, adolescents, friendship quality

The study presents the following hypotheses (word-for-word):

“Our hypothesis was that the quality of friendship that adolescents have would be linked to the degree to which adolescents and their friends (as perceived by participants) would use social media in another-oriented manner. Particularly, the positive direct impact of other-oriented use of both participants (H1a) and perceived friends (H1b) on the quality of friendship. The active use of social media by adolescents would be positively related to perceived group norms both directly (H2a) and indirectly (H2b) through participants’ beliefs on other-oriented use. The beliefs, on the other hand, of the adolescents would be related to their type of social media use (H3a) and to the perceived quality of friendship (H3b).

These hypotheses are highly consistent with the quantitative, correlational SEM approach since the methodology would allow testing both direct effects and indirect effects between the variables identified.

The research draws explicitly on the Transformation Framework, which theorizes peer relationship process change due to social media use during adolescence, and on Social Influence Theory in conceptualizing perceived group norms.

Italian public high school adolescents (grades 9–12): N = 751 adolescents, mean age = 16.2 years, SD = 1.5; 56.6% female.

Quantitative study based on a cross-sectional survey design, examined through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), in order to evaluate hypothesized relations.

The study found that adolescents’ friendship quality was positively linked to both their own other-oriented social media usage and their friends’ other-oriented usage as they perceived it. Perceived group norms for other-oriented use in turn predicted active use behaviors and beliefs, which were related to friendship quality. Among social media features, availability was linked directly to both friendship quality and other-oriented use, and visualness was a determinant of beliefs regarding other-oriented use. Quantifiability was unrelated to any variables. The model explained ~30% of the variance in friendship quality overall. No gender differences in the model were significant. These results indicate that teenagers’ happiness with friendships is influenced not just by how they and their friends interact in the virtual world but also by what they think the social media affordances are.

(Zhao & Yu, 2023)

Boundary theory, Social media, Self-presentation theory, Perceived leader support, Work engagement

The article frames hypotheses instead of formal research questions (word-for-word excerpt):

– “Social media anxiety mediates the relationship between blurring boundary online and employee work engagement.” (Hypothesis 3)

These hypotheses align well with the quantitative, correlational survey design using moderated mediation analysis.

The study particularly appeals to the theory of self-presentation and the theory of boundary management and uses them to demonstrate that the online degeneration of boundaries leads to anxiety and influences engagement. To model moderation effects, a relational boundary research framework is proposed to introduce perceived leader support.

Full-time employees in China, N = 212 respondents from an online survey

The impact of online boundary blurring on work engagement is mediated by social media anxiety, such that the more the boundary is blurred, the greater the anxiety, which subsequently reduces work engagement, particularly in the presence of a weak perceived leader support. The negative impact in the form of anxiety was minimized when the workers had high leader support. The findings indicate the complexity of the relationship between the use of technology, mental health, and relational workplace conditions.